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Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Liz Szabo is a senior correspondent and enterprise reporter for KHN who focuses on the quality of patient care.

Pandemic stress, gangs, and utter fear fueled a rise in teen shootings

By: - March 13, 2023

This story comes to Newsline from KHN. Diego never imagined he’d carry a gun. Not as a child, when shots were fired outside his Chicago-area home. Not at age 12, when one of his friends was gunned down. Diego’s mind changed at 14, when he and his friends were getting ready to walk to midnight […]